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Front cover image: 911 parking in front of the Heritage Motor Museum, Gaydon, at The Porsche Show 2013, by Tony Levy.

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Editor & designer: Tony Blow tony@typescape.com All Torque, 6/2, 308 Old Rutherglen Road, Glasgow G5 0UN. Printed by: The Lavenham Press Ltd, Suffolk (01787 247 436) Advertising in All Torque is managed by: TIPEC club office, Walnut Tree Farm, Grain Road, Lower Stoke, Rochester ME3 9RE (0845 602 0052) TIPEC online Website: www.tipec.net Twitter: @Porsche_TIPEC Search for us on Facebook TIPEC Chairman: Sean Smallman (07500 332 790) sean.smallman@tipec.net Vice Chairman: Jim Hearnden (07930 353 232) tr7v8@phaetonconsulting.co.uk Treasurer: Paul Bird (01922 428 409) paulpsb928@yahoo.co.uk PR & Advertising Director: Andrew Smith (07974 256 694) marketing@tipec.net Membership Secretary: Lee Reader (01555 664 200) membership@tipec.net TIPEC Membership, 9 Forsyth Court, Lanark ML11 7BQ Internal Communications Director: Sue Simmons (07530 312 700) sue.simmons@tipec.net All Torque & TIPEC are entirely independent of Dr. Ing. H.c.F. Porsche AG, Porsche Cars GB Ltd and its dealers. All registered Trade Marks owned

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We can confidently say ‘The Porsche Show’ was a success. Over 700 Porsches joined us on Sunday for a very relaxed informal day at the Heritage Motor Centre. This was a great turnout given that Classics at the Castle was on the same day (with all P-cars invited not just pre-1973 as in prior years). We tried an alternative parking layout, of 911s on one side – our way of celebrating 911/50. All other Porsches parked together. This is the first year that there has been no complaints about parking, so this will be the format going forward. It was nice to see so many 944s in one place, the most I have seen together for quite a long time.

The Saturday events of The Anniversary Weekend went well. Yours truly was relieved when everyone made it back from the Cream Tea Run. The Scones were superb, Val the Cafe Supervisor had done us proud. In the evening we met in the Kestrel Suite with panoramic views of the countryside for the BBQ. The cover band, Krisis, played a broad range of music from the ’60s to current chart, they had us dancing the night away.

A big thank you to Jim Hearnden for organising the show. Paul and Christopher Greer for helping set up and take down. To Lindsay Brown and all his volunteers that parked cars and manned the Club Office.

Also to the Scottish Region who brought 15 cars down from over the border and were well represented in the Show and Shine.

Going forward the Club has to decide what it wants to do with regards to a National Show. Whilst the overall weekend went very well and the feedback was positive, the BBQ was undersold and the Run could have accommodated significantly more than the 23 cars that took part. We had a similar issue with the trackday we organised at Blyton back in April. Lots of members saying that they wished they had attended after the event doesn’t really help.

When you have an RO attending an event, we generally get a good turn out from that region. We need to understand how we encourage participation, because there are members who rightly expect us to put on these kind of events. Whilst we enjoy organising events for people, the numbers need to make it all worthwhile. The annual show would appear to be mainly for the general public – with the cost and the amount of effort put in, should we bother?

The website is currently being redesigned. There will be some new features and the content pages will be easier to update. The site will also feature the club database which will make accessing the regional information much easier for ROs. Google Checkout will be replaced by a more conventional online payment process.

We will be at the Classic Motor Show at the NEC in November and members from Central Region will have their cars on display. We will have some seating so if you’re at the show, feel free to stop by and have a rest and a chat with us on the stand.

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Club news 2013 is the twentieth anniversary of our club, and the committee have planned a wide range of events to celebrate, making it a real year to remember, from trackdays to our annual show at Gaydon.

TIPEC Lifetime Membership Award There was one item of club business intended to take place at the annual show that unfortunately did not – the presentation of the Lifetime Membership Award to Derek Flanagan, RO for South East Region.

It seemed fitting that in our 20th Anniversary we present Derek (member number 76) the award for services to the Club. It was the best kept secret in TIPEC, everyone in his region knew and a good bunch from the South East region were present at the show.

With fifteen minutes to the prizegiving, I asked James Garrard to find Derek.

Unfortunately he had gone home!

Sean Smallman presented Derek with his award on home turf at the next South East club night instead.

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Despite the danger of this turning into the Derek Flanagan News pages, Derek has another reason to celebrate with the publication of this issue:

Derek responds: “I felt very humble and honoured to receive this award and be recognised for my contributions. I am intending to be around for another 20 years so that I get the full benefit from my state and private pensions and I also look forward to continuing to serve TIPEC as long as I am able to provide positive contributions and enjoy the benefits of being a member of this great club.

Apologies for disappearing from Gaydon on Sunday before the awards started. At least it gave Sean the opportunity to come to our Regional meeting again and enjoy the company of our passionate members in the South East. I know the members really appreciated his attendance. Once again many thanks for this special award. I remain passionate about Porsche and TIPEC and hope to see some of you at the Classic Car Show in November.”

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“As a founder member I have had more opportunities than most to submit articles for our All Torque magazine. As I have a complete collection including the first three A5 format issues and the many magazines issued when it was called ‘Club News’, I decided to have a count up and surprised myself when I counted 48 articles.

With the two articles that I have submitted in this issue I have now submitted my 50th article, excluding the regional reports that I submit as the South East Region RO. Is this a record or do you know better?”

We held a prize draw for anyone joining our club at the event and the winner of the the beautiful book shown above is: John Peden from Great Chesterford in Essex – Many Congratulations John!

The book is published in mid October and should be with you around then.

The winner was entirely down to Sue’s discretion (after all, she was personally offering the prize!) and after reading the magazine cover to cover Sue chose Andy Blythe for his article “Road Car vs. Race Car”; the story of his 944S and his 924 Turbo.

Well Done Andy!

Road car vs.

Race car One of the biggest improvements I have seen in lap times came from steering geometry changes. When the 924 was originally conceived for the VW Audi group, Porsche were told to develop a neutral handling car – unlike the 911 of the time, which was renowned as a handful in inexperienced hands. Porsche had said that the 911 rewarded the accomplished driver (Yeah right, if your name’s Vic Elford). Who would admit to not being able to tame the beast? But Porsche realised the need for a balanced car and set it up accordingly, resulting in very little castor on the front.

I am lucky to own two Porsches, a 944S road car and a 924 Turbo race car. I really can’t afford to run either and both cars are a drain on resources.

I always wanted a 911 ever since my Mother bought me a Polisel model of a 911S for my 7th birthday. I kept the car screwed to its polystyrene plinth and never played with it. It sat on my bookcase next to the Airfix Silk Cut Tomcat Jag. I wasn’t to own a Porche for another 26 years, when I decided to stop saving for the 911 and get on the Porsche ownership ladder by buying a 924. While looking for my entry level Porsche I came across a special 944S. It had originally been the demo car for Porsche Strathclyde’s MD so it was fully loaded with everything you would need and no A/C. It even had the sports handling kit. Later in its life the interior would be reupholstered with oxblood red and cream leather, with embroidered Porsche crests in the headrests. I fell for the car’s looks immediately and got a bank loan for the rest of the cash.

Now I would never part with it.

The race car was a different story. It came to me from eBay an unloved, broken MOT failure and a non-runner. It was a standard road car and having lived in the South all its life the shell was perfect. The Turbo was just the donor I needed. It was already on five-stud running gear and disc brakes all round. It had cost £250. Someone had tried to drill out a broken exhaust head stud with the engine in the car and drilled through the head into the water jacket.

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It is hard to comprehend without actual experience how much faster a race car can be, even a slow one. A friend of mine was at a trackday where a 996 GT3 was chasing round a new Skyline. When the session had ended the two drivers were congratulating each other on their driving skill and ability of the cars. The 996 driver commented that the Skyline driver was “on it and mental” and try as he might he couldn’t pass, to which the Skyline pilot replied he was “going for it” and wondered how fast they were going. The 996 driver had a stopwatch and they were lapping at one minute 56 seconds. My friend and fellow racing driver, having had his Sport 350 Lotus around Croft, knew this was a respectable time and congratulated them on their turn of speed … but he didn’t have the heart to tell them that his mate laps Croft at 1:43 in an 1980 924.

It is hard to comprehend without actual experience how much faster a race car can be, even a slow one.

Over many years the car was turned from a track day warrior into a race car.

Unfortunately the rebuilt Turbo engine did not see real action and expired due to oil pressure failure, an expensive lesson caused by the lack of baffles in the sump stopping the oil from being forced to one side in high speed long corners.

All of which brings me to the point of this article. I have a 190 BHP road car and a 140 BHP race car. I race at the local race track, Croft. There are many differences between the cars. Although most people will tell you the 944 is the same shell with bigger arches, in practice the shells are slightly different.

What makes a race car so much faster is the sum of its parts, starting at the bottom with its tyres. The car’s suspension is built to run on sticky rubber that will handle the demands of the race track. Within three laps of race pace road tyres will turn into chewing gum and start to shed rubber, like an F1 car producing the marbles we have become accustomed to seeing off the racing line. Once the tyres overheat it’s like driving on standing water. A road car suspension, even stiffened sports suspension, will not transmit the same sort of energy into the tyre and so will not heat the tyre up as much. My 924 runs at the limits of its suspension travel to lower its centre of gravity.

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Castor is responsible for self-centring when you come out of a corner, like the castors on a shopping trolley, but it also gives the steering feel and turn in. It can make a car very twitchy and direct but has the trade-off that the steering can become heavy. I have developed my own strut tops to allow much more castor and camber than was original designed by Porsche. This would make the car twitchy to drive on the road; unlike the 944 which was built to be a GT car, swallowing up the open road in style, speed and comfort.

Obviously the car has gone through a strict diet to lose weight, including stripping the underseal from the floor pan, saving six kilogrammes. The car still has a long way to go and I will continue to develop it. For next year I have a Turbo power plant currently under construction. I am expecting power to rise to over 200 BHP. The steering geometry changes netted a three second improvement in lap times. Although it doesn’t sound much ,let me put that into perspective. At Croft my car will hit a top speed of over 100 mph three times a lap. At 100mph you are travelling at 8.4 metres per second, giving you a 25 metre gap over a car three seconds slower as you cross the start finish line.

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For 15 minutes at a time the car will be driven to its absolute limits. Racing the car and taking it to (and beyond) its limits on several occasions has made me realise what a good chassis the 924 and 944 have. Its also made me realise that you only scratch the surface of what these cars are capable of on the road. My dream car has changed over the years, although it’s always started with the number 911 (apart from the 917, in case of a big lotto win). I find myself looking at a 993 Targa to enjoy the back lanes and country roads in the North East, knowing that it will be more than capable.

I would strongly advise everyone to take their car on a trackday at least once.

Strap on a set of part-worn premium brand tyres. When the tread blocks are worn down they do not move about as much under load and the heat is not built up as much in the tyre carcass. As the tyre heats up the pressure will increase thus you will need to drop the pressure in the tyre (by around 4 psi) on a cool day, more if the sun‘s out and track temperature is high. There is nothing more worrying than going into a corner fully committed and finding out the brake pedal has gone to the floor and retardation is not occurring. At full speed on a track, brake fluid will boil after three or four hot laps if you’re driving it properly, for this reason you may want to have a racing fluid or silicon based fluid installed to your braking system. ATE blue is available from your local Euro Car Parts shop at a reasonable price. If your budget will stretch to it get some professional help and get someone to take you out to point out the racing line and braking points. And read Vic Elford‘s excellent book on how to drive Porsches.

Racing the car and taking it to its limits has made me realise what a good chassis the 924 and 944 have.

It has given me enormous enjoyment to develop my 924 over the years. In an attempt to find more seconds and even tenths of a second, I removed the alternator; jumping the car off and relying on the battery to power the ignition system and fuel pump for the 15 minute races. Aside from the weight I saved, when you have 140 BHP you want all of them ponies to drive the rear wheels and not be trying to drive an energy-sapping alternator.

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The 924 continues to be developed and has had many tweaks to make it as fast as it is, but I can’t tell you all of them … because then you’d be as fast as me.

Writing & photography by Andy Blythe All Torque 100 page 19

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Member’s cars Martin Jackson tells of his excitement in tracking down a Porsche of an unusual colour (the Peppermint Peril), even more excitement upon actually getting to drive it, and of his discovery of TIPEC.

A childhood dream (I have never really grown up) that I have harboured for a long time was to own my own Porsche. After a bit of very gentle persuasion with my good lady Kim we set off on the hunt. Having looked at few Boxsters with my meagre savings firmly burning a hole in my pocket, I really wanted a 911. I started trawling the classifieds with much gusto, realising early in the search that I did not really want silver or grey and had resigned myself to the fact that I was going to have a blue one. Nothing wrong with the silvers and greys of course, but past BMWs and Alfas in silver and grey had ticked that box.

Looking at where my savings would stretch there were a lot of high mileage good to tatty to downright ruined cars. So we (I) drew up a wish list: low mileage, as good a condition as possible that might need a bit of work. Off we (I) went again soon realising the search would need to be widened and still searching the web we stumbled over (at this point I can say we!) what has become known as the Peppermint Peril. It ticked all my boxes: low mileage, brilliant condition, MOT, and once Kim saw the really unusual colour it was a done deal before we even set off to go look at it.

The first Saturday we set off early from our home in Kent to see the car in South Wales, where we met two very nice soon to be exPorsche owners Wayne and Karen. They became instant friends … tea, fresh bread, incredible ham. The deal was done as soon we pulled into their drive. “I’ve got to have that car” I whispered, “I’ve got to have that colour” I heard being uttered from herself in the passenger seat.

You know when you’re on a fast bike or in a fast boat it kind of draws your cheeks back exposing your teeth … imagine seeing two middle aged kids standing in your drive beaming ear to ear like they are exposed to several Gs of wind … and they still befriended us!

They did actually not tell the whole truth in the advert. She is in great condition, very low mileage and a real head turner, the few problems were pointed out like untidy wheels and a CD multichanger that does not work. “Sorry,” said Wayne, “but I have reflected that in the price”. ‘Not half’ I thought, but as a reasonably good businessman I tried to play it cool and not rip the keys out of his hand shouting ‘It’s mine it’s mine!’ Test drive, he said. Come on, I thought, does chocolate melt when you pour hot tea on it? Kim kept her cool discussing the finer points of cooked ham and fantastic bread, her decision was already made … me I’m still playing it cool. Yeah right …

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Jade car. By the time we had got home rail tickets were bought, a new cherished number bought, the garage had been redesigned and a new wardrobe dreamed of. That week was a long one, still trawling the Internet looking at prices of spares, servicing, local independents, car clubs and still looking at the classifieds in case the deal was to good to be true.

Eventually the following Saturday arrived. I don’t know if you remember the TV advert of the two grown ups sitting on their beds with luggage and cameras round their necks waiting to go on holiday … That was us, firmly clutching train tickets, meagre savings, train timetable (it was memorised) but we took it in case we forgot … then prising a grumpy 20 year old out of his bed early on Saturday morning to take two beaming, giggling, middle-aged kids to the local train station.

We arrived, our new found friends picked us up from the local railway station, more tea, fresh bread, ham … money exchanged hands and I left Kim to sort out the paperwork whilst I ripped the keys out of Wayne’s hands and went to inspect the dream. Trying hard not to be rude, we made our excuses and started the first of what was definitely going to be many journeys. There was me squeezing the loud pedal until you get that gentle little cough emanating from the passenger seat … we soon got into a rhythm: squeeze, cough, slow, squeeze you know the story. Before long the ‘what are we going to call it’ game came to a conclusion and the Peppermint Peril was born.

I was working out what I could chuck out to get it in the garage, Kim was working out a new cruising (posing) wardrobe to match an Ocean Jade car.

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After a leisurely drive around the Chepstow countryside not breaking any laws (honestly not one …) a deal was done, probably about two hours after we had made the decision. We were now almost proud owners of a 1999 911. A collection date was made for the following weekend and the drive home was made up of smiles and giggles. I was working out what I could chuck out to get it in the garage, Kim was working out a new cruising (posing) wardrobe to match an Ocean

We soon had it home in the recently cleared out garage and the first wash and polish started well. It had done 20,000 miles, another 100 miles followed very quickly taking errant sons, their girlfriends and strangers who remotely showed an interest for a careful legal drive (honest Kim) with no throttle squeezing or tyre screeching …

I said. Then Jim and Paul Greer arrived and in conversation Sean was introduced as the club Chairman.

I am sure I saw a smile creep across his face. Me, I was trying to hide my blushing and feeling like a total idiot.

Embarrassment over, we had a great evening. We met some really nice people, made (I hope) some new friends, and were invited to an OPC open day for nothing. Some of Sean and Jim’s reasons to join ringing true, what I not did tell them was that I had had some late night and early morning emails with Lee (poor bloke he was trying to pack for his holiday, not keep answering this blithering idiot) and had already agreed to pay up when he returned from his well earned break.

As said earlier, part of the Internet trawl was to find a bunch of like minded grown ups in whose company we could enjoy using the Peril. I kind of made my mind up from the search and contacted Jim Hearnden to see if we could appear at the next South East London & North Kent Club Meeting and see what TIPEC was all about.

Well, several emails at odd hours ( Jim was in the UAE working and I was in Europe also working) it was evident that we would be welcomed and given the hard sell! We arrived early as herself decided their cooking was probably better than hers, and who am I to argue?

The first person we met was Sean. Well, I didn’t know who he was did I? “So tell me about this club,” I said, “what do you think of it?”

I said, “Are we going to enjoy it?” I said, “Is it good value for money?”

The OPC day threw up a few surprises but nothing to spoil our experience, Kim met a few more partners and decided the social side was gong to work for her. Drinking eating, chatting and being driven around by a smirking gibbering idiot … yep, the car still has that effect.

This was a long way round of saying well done to Mr. Smallman for tolerating this complete twat, for running a well organised club and for surrounding yourself with a thoroughly nice bunch of people whose dedication is first class and who are not afraid of answering stupid idiots like moi. I have only dealt with a couple of the team so far and a handful of members, but am sure the rest of the team are as enthusiastic and the other members we are going to meet are as sociable and welcoming the ones we have met so far.

We are both looking forward to joining in with the runs and meeting more and more of the membership and more committee members. Well done all!

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Member’s cars Despite usually being a 991 man, Martin Whitelaw decided it was high time he tried a front-engined, water cooled, Porsche. Martin’s chosen 944 S2 Cabriolet, however, turned out to be a baptism of fire …

And what an introduction to water cooled Porsches this turned out to be! Call me an impulsive petrolhead but ‘I knew better’ and could see beneath the tired exterior of this S2 cabriolet – a little gem in the making. First a warning! Never take both your good friend and your wife along to see a prospective purchase. Between them they had this piece of motoring excellence condemned before I even drove it – and to top that, to get the thumbs down on my return from a short test drive was to insult my irreproachable judgement on all things automotive and more importantly my male ego. They were, of course, partially right, I had to endure five months of listening to their quips and how they ‘tried to tell me’ etc …

Anyway, I bought the car and managed to drive it home without too much trouble.

She was a 74K miles 1991 registered Porsche 944 S2 Cabriolet (finished then in a less than vibrant Dove Blue Metallic) with a dark blue hood and smart-ish ivory leather interior. Options were few other than the normal UK electrics pack, headlamp washers etc, and a set of reasonable second generation Boxster 17" alloys.

On closer inspection the rust free car advertised was far from it, with rust almost everywhere and signs of a reasonable previous full respray being totally wasted on poor rust elimination and preparation.

Mechanically it had a broken engine mount and some omissions following a clutch replacement carried out by a Porsche specialist in the West only 13k miles ago – e.g. loose bellhousing bolts, loose starter ring allen bolt, missing exhaust mountings and probably worst of all a loose bellhousing engine earth strap which caused me a great deal of time and trouble – see later!

The 944 was quickly SORNed and I set about the following: • broken OS engine mount and alloy bracket • missing support to exhaust system, • slack and rattling gearbox bellhousing bolt • untightened 19mm clutch bellhousing bolt, • starter wiring loom supports missing • rear silencer heat shield missing, • clutch pipe support missing from rear of engine, • flywheel/starter ring allen headed bolt backing out and fouling bellhousing and starter motor, • distributor rotor wrongly positioned (plug leads had been moved to accommodate) • front calliper damper pads wrongly fitted in OS calliper • steel wishbone in OS – alloy wishbone in NS? • broken cast iron pulley on lower balance shaft • wrong oil seal fitted to camshaft housing • water pump dowels not fitted correctly • excessive sealant used on water pump – sealant inside pump housing and water gallery?

• ECU fail (most likely caused by poor earth strap) • digital clock faulty • handbrake lever ratchet seized • no tools with vehicle • no jack handle with vehicle • hood control relay G21 faulty – hood in manual operation only • seized idle stabilisation valve … and finally, I hope, a loose main earth connection to the back of the engine – this by far caused the most headache and anxiety as the 944 would fail to start intermittently for no good reason.

The work started with the engine mount and finished (for now) with the replacement of both belts, camshaft chain and guides, water pump and front oil seals. She now runs well, stops a bit better and starts reliably – albeit with the usual 944 gruffness and characteristic two second delay in firing after turning the key*.

The main effort went into the body and from the start it was obvious that the following areas of bodywork needed attention: • OS rear sill through rust • NS rear sill through rust • OS front wing bottom rusted through • NS front wing bottom showing through rusting • Surface rusting on: • both door handle positions • both door mirror positions • OS front repeater position • rear panel at NS light unit • OS rear cabriolet side trim piece • OS front wing/bumper joint • rear valance • both rear boot wells • both headlight covers • both front sill tops.

Bodywork started with the rear sill sections, both sides were cut out and new sections welded in up to and forward of the ‘B’ posts.

The OS front wing lower section was remade and the NS front wing replaced with an ‘as new’ genuine wing which, because of accident damage, was going cheap but needed the centre section from my old wing grafted in.

The latter was welded using backing straps spot welded on the underside and then seam welded on the upper surfaces with a final lead loading and filler skim. The whole car was prepared for respray and delivered to the paint shop minus some of the removable panels which were sprayed ‘off the car’. The colour chosen is a metallic sky blue similar to a factory shade seen on 944s and on the 911 Turbo.

The hood material, although quite serviceable, was showing signs of age where stitching had come out and wear patches had developed.

I decided to replace this two piece hood with new supplied by Monsoon Hoods. Fitting the new hood and the original head liners was possibly the most tasking of all the work undertaken but – by meticulously working from the back to the front – the hood was finally on and looking almost professional. The glue I used was a high temperature impact brushing adhesive supplied by Frost ART, but not before I had carried out some testing with this and other glues to be sure that the hood would not fly off down some motorway on the next hot day!

The electric operation for the hood had been previously disconnected and and after exhaustive motor and switch checking I finally came to the conclusion that the main hood relay, G21, must be inoperative.

At some £250 for a new replacement some quick thinking was needed. The 944 cabriolet hood is semi-automatic in that the hood rail is manually unlocked from the windscreen surround before microswitches allow the hood motor(s) to operate. Further microswitches limit the movement of the hood mechanism forward and aft. From the wiring diagrams I deduced that shorting over some of the G21 relay pins would allow power to the centre console mounted hood switch and it should all work again – this it did, with only an ignition supply and earth feed needed across the defunct G21 relay position in the fusebox. All that is missing with this configuration is a signal feed from the speedometer. This matters little when the hood can only be operated when the both manual locks are undone – you would be most unlikely to do this when travelling along, finding it difficult to steer and unlock the hood at the same time!

The original standard hood power relays located in the luggage compartment still operate as do the travel and hood locking microswitches and also both side windows drop a little as designed – job done! Eh, not really. Many months later I stupidly tried to raise the hood without having first removed the tonneau cover!

A couple of sharp bangs rang out as both main cast alloy hood Text by Martin Whitelaw & photography by Martin & Elaine Whitelaw All Torque 101 page 9

uprights snapped clean through! Weeks (and hundreds of pounds) later I was deliberating on what had happened when a friend noted that it was strange that Porsche did not build something into the hood control unit to avoid this catastrophe. The penny dropped and I set about making sure that I would have a working hood control in relay G21 position.

To cut a long story short, the previous owner (like me) had not read the owner’s manual as thoroughly as he should and, assuming the electrics where not working, had put the hood mechanism into manual operation. Recently, as I again played about with another replacement G21 relay, I discovered that the hood electrics will only work with the ignition key is in position one – not position two, and not with the engine running! A quick read of the owner’s manual confirmed only ignition position one for hood operation. All along there had been nothing wrong with the hood electrics but Herr Porsche had decided that for the 944 he would make the hood only work on the ‘radio position’ of the ignition switch. Feeling a bit stupid, I consoled myself with the thought that I will not have been the first to fall foul of this piece of teutonic skulduggery as the hoods of my previous 964 and 993 Cabriolets (indeed any cabriolet I’ve driven) work with full ignition and/or engine running … Potential 944/968 cabriolet owners beware!

One small win was the fitment of a new LED screen to the original defunct digital clock. A kit is available to repair the clock and it was really quite simple to follow the instructions given. (Contact me if you’re interested and I’ll forward details of the supplier.)

Another point worth a mention was the water pump and thermostat.

This 944 always ran too much on the hot side and a change of thermostat helped here, but only as the one I took out was 88ºC and its replacement had the standard setting of 82ºC. The hot running continued so as part of the belt replacement work I changed the water pump for a new unit. On removal, it could be seen that the old pump had been fitted with so much silicone gasket sealant that the relatively small pump cavity and the neighbouring water gallery had been partially obstructed! Perhaps a further indicator of a dubious past? A little care with the sealant and she now runs temperature steady at just over the first white indication on the gauge.

As mentioned earlier, the main bell housing earth strap had not been tightened properly and presumably had been losing conductivity over the period. Incidentally, records show that some time after the clutch replacement at 61k miles a new starter motor was fitted and an ECU repair undertaken. Although starting and running well enough when I bought it – signs similar to that experienced with a low battery where observed – starter clicking but not turning over, engine turning over slowly, engine turning over but injectors not firing, etc …

Various trials were undertaken with DME relays, three way shunts across the DME positions, temporary earth cables to the engine, even a second hand ECU. All had varying degrees of success but finally, after being stranded away from home with a failed start, I set about checking and cleaning all the earth connections. The main engine earth strap from the bulkhead to the bell housing is difficult to access at the bell housing and, of course, this is the one that had been overlooked on the clutch change of old – it was slack! Tightening this instantly cured all the electrical gremlins and is something that I will not forget in a long time!

Was I right to buy in the end? You can be the judge of that! * Many months into ownership another not dissimilar problem developed with intermittent starting but this time only after the engine had been switched off for a short period of time, i.e. still hot. This has not yet been cured and if anyone out there can help I would be eternally grateful.

To date I have replaced or substituted the following: fuel pressure regulator, NTC sensor, DME relay, DME ECU, Air flow meter, throttle position switch, ignition switch and spark plugs and I still have the hot starting problem. All earths and main power connections have been cleaned and remade.

Martin Whitelaw mbw032@msn.com

Grub & scrub

The Scottish region’s annual BBQ & concours …

Nowadays the Scottish Region’s season is not complete without its now annual BBQ and trophy day. This was a must from the suggestion forms put out at the start of the season and we aim to please, as they say. This is a day that was introduced a few years ago by Stewart Gordon, our former RO, and what a great day out it always seems to be. Okay, the weather has to play its part and in times gone by we have had to cancel this event – sadly we can’t dictate the weather. The original date for this year’s BBQ was washed out on July 28th so we cancelled it at the last minute as the heavens opened and it was monsoon Scotland on that day!

We rescheduled for the following Sunday, the 4th of August, and luckily the sun shone down on us.

A good selection of Porkers on display for the BBQ event

It all kicked off at Midday and as usual a few turned up early to get the old microfibre cloths out and start their polishing frenzy for an hour or two. James, Alan and I turned up early also to set up the gazebo and BBQ. I was head chef for the day and James, Martin and Alan were our dedicated judges for the concours. There are many trophy’s up for grabs so I’ll just spend a few lines explaining the set up. There is a trophy for member of the year, a trophy for best improved Porsche, a trophy for visitor’s choice, for the street concours there is a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, and for the concourse d’elegance a 1st place only. So all in all seven trophies up for grabs. All to play for!

By 1pm the day was in full flight and I was full steam ahead on the BBQ. We had a good selection on offer, beefburgers, chicken drumsticks, peppered steaks and not forgetting the vegetarian option of Linda McCartney’s burgers and sausages. There was salad with all the dressings etc, and the puddings were fabby with cheesecake and gateaux … and of course a few beers and some vino to wash it all down with. The kids tucked into soft drinks and sweets. Meanwhile the judges were going round the cars – and there were 20 cars or so to be done so it’s all go for both camps. A good turnout with 20 cars and 40 bodies, one of those days were members come together and relax and have a good old chinwag about anything and everything.

As 3pm approaches it is a very close thing, as always, with sometimes half points separating the final standings. As ever the cars are immaculate and this year two cars share the same points so the judges had to pay a visit to both cars again for a reappraisal – and only a point between them this second time around, but all was decided and on to the presentation.

The final standing was as follows:

Martin Whitelaw: 1st prize Street Concours

James McLauchlan: Concourse D’elegance

1st Place Street Concours: 2nd Place Street Concours: 3rd Place Street Concours:

Martin Whitelaw (944 S2 Cabby) Craig Younger (997 911) Stewart Gordon (944 S2)

Concours D’elegance:

James McLauchlan (964 911 Cabby)

Visitors Choice:

Alan Neilson (944 2.7)

Best Improved Porsche:

Martin Whitelaw (944 s2 Cabby)

Member of the Year Winner: Pete Weston

All hands to the pump with the 964 polishing!

So the trophies were presented and all is done for another year. A big thanks to everybody for turning out with some fantastic looking cars. Another big thanks to the judges: James, Martin and Alan, and to Colin at the Bo’Ness Motor Museum for letting us host the day. If you missed this years ‘grub and scrub’ day then pencil it in for next year as it will be top of the list on the suggestion forms again … I am pretty confident of that!

Text by Neil Fraser & photography by Elaine Whitelaw All Torque 101 page 11

The 911at 50

Goodwood celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 911 Goodwood hosted a fantastic day on Sunday 4th August to celebrate 50 years of the 911. The South East region’s local Porsche Centre, Mid Sussex, invited fifty 911s for a special parade around the Goodwood racing circuit followed by a unique photoshoot in front of Lord March’s Goodwood House.

Fortunately we were blessed with perfect weather and in the end there were 53 911 models representing the evolution of this iconic car from 1975 through to the latest Type 991 911.

Text & photography by Derek Flanagan All Torque 101 page 13

911x911 The 911at 50 The 2013 Silverstone Classic’s world record attempt The 2013 Silverstone Classic not only lived up to its billing as ‘The world’s biggest classic motor racing festival’ but surpassed all expectations as records tumbled – Record race entries, record crowds, a new lap record, record classic cars on show and culminating in a world record parade.

After a thunderstorm on the Saturday evening which interrupted proceedings the sun came out on Sunday, which was dominated by an amazing parade of Porsche 911s that took to the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit achieving a world record number of 1,208 cars on the circuit as the Silverstone Classic celebrated the 50th anniversary of the iconic 911.

The original plan was to produce a parade of 911 x 911s but this was eclipsed when celebrations were announced. Records are there to be broken, so rather than settling for the initial target, organisers managed to squeeze an incredible 1,208 Porsches on to a packed circuit – creating a breathtaking sight in the process! – the cars

included the most famous models from all eras in its 50 year history such as the legendary Carrera, RS, RSR, GT, Speedster, Targa and Turbo in all variants and colours plus the latest release 991 GT3.

The sensational spectacle, which raised funds for the Hope for Tomorrow cancer charity, was led by a number of famous Porsche legends. Mark Porsche, son of 911 designer Ferdinand ‘Butzi’ Porsche and great-grandson of the marque’s original founder, Ferdinand Porsche, got proceedings underway and he was joined by a number of the sportscar manufacturer’s most successful racing drivers.

Former F1 driver and five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell MBE drove a 911 as part of the parade and Richard Attwood – winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours for Porsche in 1970 – was also on hand to pilot another 911. Porsche owners made up the remainder of the wonderful convoy culminating in the remarkable world record number of 911s. Other notable legends taking part in the parade included John Fitzpatrick and David Piper.

Text by Derek Flanagan, photography by Derek Flanagan & James Garrard All Torque 101 page 15

Butzi’s brainwave hits the heights The 911at 50

Early & beautiful 911

The famous and incredibly fast 'Moby Dick'. 3.5 litre turbocharged Porsche 935/78. Walter Rohrl at the wheel.

Sleeping beauties (917s)

Every year at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the skyline above Lord March’s stately home opens up to the most stunning and seemingly gravity defying sculptures, each intended to epitomise and eulogise the selected marque of the moment. As if the hill climb speed spectacle and a star-spangled cast of motor sport’s most illustrious daredevils were not enough, without exception the sculptures themselves bring gasps of delight. It’s a case always of ‘how do they do it?’

It is no secret that the inspirational shape and visionary design of the iconic Porsche 911, created by Ferdinand Alexander ‘Butzi’ Porsche following a directive from Ferry Porsche, who wanted a grand successor to the 356, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. There was stiff competition for the sculpture, no doubt, for the Festival itself was celebrating its 20th, while the World Rally Championship was 40 years old and still thriving, with many rally aces of yesteryear thrashing the daylights out of their machines on the Forest Rally Stage. Add to this the celebration marking 50 years since Bruce McLaren unveiled his first racer, the 90th anniversary since the Le Mans 24 hour racing marathon was launched, the start of Lamborghini’s entry into the league of supercars, this happening in 1963 following a spat between Lamborghini and Enzo Ferrari.

We were treated to several stirring appearances on track from John McGuinness, forever the hero and 20 times the winner of the Isle of Man Senior TT. It has been said often that fortune favours the brave, which undoubtedly is a trait McGuinness epitomises.

To cap it all, apart from our beloved Porsche 911, that is, Aston Martin’s reaching of its 100th year of production did not go unheralded. So many celebrations, all of them truly worthy, that the mind positively boggles. All in all, this was a Festival of Speed that may prove difficult to better, but I guess we say that every year as we wend our way home, only to be surprised and delighted when we make the return pilgrimage. As a Porsche owner, this Festival of Speed made me feel very proud indeed.

Prepared for all eventualities.

Porsche 911 GT1 3.5 litre turbocharged flat six, built 1998.

Returning to ‘our marque’, ace motorsport photographer, Phil Jones, was always on hand to record the various revelations of Porsche, not only the 911, though it clearly stole the show, but other equally famous Porsches, including competition versions of the 936, 956 and 917. Twice daily, the hill echoed to the howls of various iterations of the 911, evocative deliverance of such magnitude that if it were possible to bottle the sounds and the aromas, they could sell the stuff in Bond Street!

With works drivers of a previous and more dangerous period, including Vic Elford and Richard Attwood, clearly out to delight themselves, it was left to those lesser mortals on the sidelines to ooh and ahh in admiration, though in truth they could but dream.

Ultra lightweight 911-ST. A Porsche supercar of the 1970s.

Text by David White & photography by Phil Jones All Torque 101 page 17

20

years of TIPEC The Porsche Show 2013 The 7th & 8th September saw our club’s 20th anniversary celebrations.

All Torque presents a photo feature from club members who were there on the weekend, featuring Saturday’s Cream Tea Run through the Cotswolds and BBQ party, Porsches from the Sunday at Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, and some of the day’s many activities, including: Test track runs, an F1 simulator, live band, Dent Wizards repair team, special guest The Stig, and our Pride of Ownership contest.

Thanks one last time to show sponsors Meguiar’s and Asset Trust.

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Photography from (and Š of): Vince Dallimore James Garrard Tony Levy Alan Purcell Clive Richardson Sean Smallman Nick Snook Chris Valentine

The Clan’s annual visit The Scottish region’s members head South en masse every year for TIPEC’s annual show and this year’s 20th anniversary was no exception.

Neil Fraser, RO, tells us how it went.

All set up at Gaydon and enjoying the day

The judges deliberating over Brian Woods’ Boxster Spyder

As we are all aware it was TIPEC’S 20th anniversary weekend at the start of September and, as always, a great weekend had by all. The Scottish region’s weekend started on the Friday (as all weekends should do) with a meet up at Abington Services on the M6 for the traditional coffee, bacon roll and catch up.

We were 15 porkers and 30 bodies heading down south this year. In years gone by we used to travel down on the Saturday and return home Sunday evening, but that proved to be tiring and with some of us travelling a 900 mile round trip it was just to much to be honest. So now we always make it a long weekend affair. We all arrive at different times at the Hotel in Rugby and once unpacked it’s a bonding session in the bar followed by the traditional group dinner.

This year saw Pete Weston broken down with a split fuel pipe, however between Porsche Centre Kendal, an agricultural workshop, and Stewart Gordon (top 944 mechanic!) it was fixed and rolling again without calling the AA. Stewart had a bit of a petrol whiff upon his arrival late on the Friday evening, but that’s the norm for Stewart. Grubby hands and a job well done!

Saturday morning and a few of us headed off on the club’s cream tea run through the Cotswolds and for the rest of us it was either shopping in Leamington spa, a visit to P.C.T. Porsche Specialists on the A45, or simply chilling at the hotel washing and getting the cars ready for the show on the Sunday. I personally chilled at the Hotel, washed the car, had lunch and then tuned in to the Grand Prix qualifying.

Later on in the afternoon we all came together again in the hotel car park and the bar. It was a further clean for the cars next as we were entering three Scottish porkers for the street concours event at Gaydon on show day. The evening soon came round and eight of us headed for the BBQ and live band at Gaydon. The rest went for the curry house and some hotel grub to finish Saturday evening up.

The BBQ and band were great and everyone had a great night. Taxi time home at just after 11pm though, as it was an early start for show day and I have to have a hearty breakfast first thing on a Sunday.

Sunday morning and all have exchanged Saturday night stories at the breakfast table, then a 9am depart for the show 14 miles away at Gaydon … so we are all in convoy trusting the satnav to take us there. The porkers keept rolling in and I’d reckon there were 450/500 cars on display once all had arrived. We set up the gazebo etc and arranged our cars around it. I did my normal hour on the club stand and lots and lots were opting for the track slot which proved to be very popular, I have to say. A few new members for the club also which was excellent – and where else are you going to get a great club like TIPEC for two years at £50? The museum wrist bands were also going like hot cakes at a reduced cost of only £6 from the club stand instead of £12 from the museum. It’s a no brainer.

The Dent Master guys were in full flight and I believe Stewart Gordon got two dents removed from his bonnet which had been bugging him for a while and they did a fabby job on it. Porsche Centre Solihull were there and had a few nice cars

Craig Younger’s 1st prize in the Street Concours

on display and a bit further round was an F1 simulator.

My other half called it a stimulator but I believe that is something totally different! The museum was popular and I did happen to bump into The Stig, who badgered me for a picture. Or was it the other way round? I also passed on a few driving tips for him but he wasn’t really up for a conversation. I’m not convinced he can talk to be honest, or he might even be an alien? The calliper guys were there and being very helpful. I bought a few microfibre cloths from the detailing stall too, which was going great guns.

A great selection of cars on display and the one that caught my eye was a Cayman R which was a lime green colour … I’m not sure of its official Porsche colour name, but it was stunning and was car of the show for me.

Eventually it was presentation time for the street concourse event sponsored by Meguiar’s. We entered a 2011 Boxster Spyder (owner Brain Wood), a lovely 944 (owner Gary Mroz) and a nice 997 911 (owner Craig Younger). All three cars were stunning to be honest and all the cars on display were totally fantastic and, to my mind, presented to the highest standard. Well, a 993 Turbo got 3rd, a Cayman got 2nd, and Craig Younger’s 997 won first prize! Well done Craig, another prize to take home to bonny Dundee. It must have been very difficult for the judges as all the cars on display were superb. Well done everyone for taking the time to present them to that standard, they were awesome. The Scots didn’t stop receiving prizes there, as Brain Wood won a set of mats for his immaculate Boxster Spyder in the raffle draw. The show was coming to an end at that stage and the whole Scottish Clan enjoyed every minute.

I have to say it is often forgotten how these days shows/ weekends come together. It is with great hard work and dedication by individuals at the club – in this case Jim Hearnden did a lot of work this year along with Sean, Paul, and a few others. A big thank you to you guys, it has not gone unrecognised form us up North. We appreciate the hard work and effort that goes into such a weekend.

We can only acknowledge this by saying thank you and attending the annual show every year. We look forward to what you have in store for the club’s 21st birthday.

Well done guys you did a grand job!

Text & photography by Neil Fraser All Torque 101 page 23

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Scotland RO Neil Fraser 07946 616 782 (mobile) neil@fraser72.freeserve.co.uk ARO West Alan Neilson 07793 234 096 (mobile) alz1933@alanneilson.fsnet.co.uk ARO East James McLauchlan jjlin@blueyonder.co.uk

what you wanted for 2013 and we put many of your suggestions into practice. The annual BBQ and concours event was a must for everyone. A Spring weekend somewhere different was on the wish list and was delivered superbly by James McLauchlan, our East Coast ARO. The Autumn run was an easy choice, with the club’s 20th anniversary celebration weekend having just been.

Well the season has been a busy one what with the weather being great all the way through. Although therer are signs of it turning as Autumn is fast approaching, it has to be said we have enjoyed a great year for many different reasons.

We had some great shows this year, once again, and the sun block was needed for many of them. Brian Wood put together Scotland’s largest gathering of Porsches – 93 in total turned up to Calderglen Country Park on the 1st September. It was a superb day out with live music, wheel refurb help and Angelwax detailing demos. Porsche Centre Glasgow supplied a car and a bouncy castle for the kids, there was a generous 20% discount in the courtyard café and much more was on offer. A day that will be remembered by all and Porsche owners far and wide are asking already about next year’s event. (Give Brain a chance to get his breath back from this year’s event first!)

The region’s membership numbers are once again up and currently sitting at 96 there or thereabouts. We asked you, the members, at the start of the season

A busy and successful season in all respects and that success is down to you, the members, being willing to participate and being, as ever, very enthusiastic

Meetings are held first Wednesday of every month 8pm for an 8:30pm start in the 007 bar, upstairs at Bo’Ness Motor Museum, Bridgeness Road, Bo’Ness EH51 9JR. www.motor-museum.bo-ness.org.uk

Scotland’s largest ever gathering of Porsches at Calderglen

Hazel giving The Stig a few tips at Gaydon

regarding the region’s activities. A massive thanks this season also to James McLauchlan for his input and efforts all season (new to the ARO role and I am glad he was pressganged into it!) Alan Neilson has again been another rock solid ARO and I would like to offer big congratulations to Alan and his partner Maree as they have just announced they will be parents around the March time next year. Also, a massive thank you to Brian Wood for his contribution all through the season with various outings as well as being the driving force behind Scotland’s largest ever gathering of Porsches.

October 13th (Sunday) Chippy tea run November Date TBC Karting evening December 14th (Saturday) Christmas Bash at Fishers Hotel, Pitlochry

Craig Younger won 1st place in the Gaydon street concours

North East RO wanted!

ARO Andy Blythe 01642 809 031 ac.blythe@mbro.ac.uk Meetings are held first Sunday of every month 7:30pm at The Sporting Lodge, Low Lane, Stainton Village, Cleveland, TS17 9LW, just off the A19. In June and July we are meeting on the SECOND Sunday of the month.

Yorkshire RO & ARO wanted Meetings are held first Tuesday of every month 7:30pm at The Arabian Horse, Main Street, Aberford, LS25 3AA (Tel 0113 281 3312). Just off the A1/A64.

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North West RO Andrew Lane 01772 740 625 07949 167 698 (mobile) caymanlane73@gmail.com ARO Simon Kendal 07540 525 841 (mobile) s.kendal@sky.com ARO Richard Sholl 07970 147 779 (mobile) rksholl@sky.com Meetings are held first Monday of every month from 8pm at The Boatyard Inn, Bolton Road, Riley Green, Houghton, Preston PR5 0SP (01254 209841).

When this falls on a Bank Holiday, we meet on the second Monday instead.

As I sit here contemplating how to enlighten you all about the summer’s activities, its 8:00pm, early September and already dark! It just goes to show that you have to make the most of what spare time you get. Here, us North Westerners have been doing just that over the last few weeks. Read on!

What was the start of the national heatwave accompanied us on our first treasure hunt for some time, in early July. Having not done one for quite some time we were unsure what the uptake was going to be like despite running a bit of a poll at the previous meeting. Would people strike up a barbie and crack open a few beers in the garden instead?

As it turned we needn’t have worried. More so Richard & Dianne than me, as it was them that had devised the route and questions. Fun without being too taxing was the theme. We headed off from The Boatyard in stages after picking up clues around the car park.

A few of us took the wrong turn straight away. Not a good start! Map reading skills need improving I think!

A total of 21 people and eight Porsches explored the countryside and found their way to village halls, churchyards, pubs and even a local prestige and sports car dealer, Bowker Ribble Valley. Many thanks to Bowker for being happy to get involved. Thanks also

to Porsche Centre Bolton for helping out with prizes.

The Tyldesleys won, the Hamertons came second and Mark & Dee were delighted to achieve a strong third place. The Staff at the Boatyard did a great job of looking after us with our meals despite being absolutely packed. Our thanks to Terry and his crew.

I’ll hand over to Richard for an update on the Knott End ‘Chippy Tea’ as I was in Scotland that weekend.

He writes: “10 Porsches and a Ford Fiesta made up our happy convoy to Knott End. I think we had a 991 Carrera S, a 997 Carrera S, a 997TT, a 996TT, a 996 Carrera, a 993 Carrera, a 930, a 987 Boxster S, a 986 Boxster S and a 944 Lux and 19 people. Tony led us to Knott End and the beautiful weather allowed us to eat outside, enjoying views across Morcambe Bay. After tea we decided to give Blackpool a miss and headed towards Guy’s Tavern on the Lancaster Canal. Doug lead the way this time, before finishing off the evening with a drink. There was even some topless action ... with the Boxsters!”

Early August saw a few members head over to the ‘Supercar Sunday’ at Mitton Hall in the Ribble Valley, for a browse at Porsches, Ferraris the odd McLaren etc. I believe the event is now finished for the year but will start up again in 2014.

911s on display at Haigh Hall

911s on display at Haigh Hall

Mid August saw a brilliant turn out for TIPEC NW with 24 Porsches on display at The German Classic & Sports Car Show. We had a full ‘911 Evolution’ lineup, starting with a pre-impact bumper 911 and finishing with a 991, complete with a laminated historic overview for people to read in front of each generation. There were loads of visitors to our stand with Mikes Grimes’ bright orange 964 getting a lot of attention along with Kevin Hughes’ ‘Porsche Green’ 997 GT3RS. Lee Mayor (of Lee Mayor Restorations) was kind enough to bring along a 356C Coupe.

We had three 3.2s, two 993s, a 996 Carrera, a 997 Carrera S, the aforementioned 991 Carrera S, three Boxsters, one Cayman, three 996 turbos, one 996 Turbo S, one 930 Turbo, a 928 and two 944s. Special thanks to Lee & Howard for bringing along the 356 and the early 911, thanks to Adam for bringing along Porsche Centre Bolton’s 981 Boxster S demonstrator and thanks to Tony Levy – who couldn't get to the show due to another social engagement – but still provided his 991 for display.

Another North West perennial event is the Annual Concours. For the second year running this was made possible with the kindness of John & Marie Pye allowing us to invade their restored barn. After what was an abysmal Saturday weatherwise, the gods listened and provided us with a bright day on the Sunday. Again, an excellent turnout ensured another successful event with John being chef for the day on his BBQ. Marie was the hostess with the mostest and looked after everyone admirably. Much last minute polishing took place. We always say that it’s a fun event, not too serious, but you know what blokes are like with their cars. Judging was provided by Ian ‘Cully’ Culshaw of the NW Ford RS Owners Club and previous 1st place winner Graham Cook. It was a real treat seeing the faces of the respective winners as I think they were all genuinely surprised. Without further ado I’ll give you the results (over the page):

North West annual concours at John & Marie’s

Concours winners Marc, Colin & Simon

Action from the Gold Cup at Oulton Park

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Gary’s orange 911 & Alf’s silver Boxster at the C&S concours

Anniversary parade of 911s at Oulton Park for the Gold Cup

1st Place: Colin Hammerton (944 Lux) 2nd Place: Simon Kendal (996 Turbo) 3rd Place: Marc Slater (993 Carrera 4) The August Bank holiday saw a bunch of members head down to the Gold Cup Classic at Oulton Park in Cheshire. This is an event held annually but attended for the first time by a lot of TIPEC members involving racing cars from the ’60s ’70s & ’80s.

The Gold Cup was made a little more special this year as privileged parking was allowed to Porsche owners with the free ticket that could be downloaded from their website. Also, parade laps were available to 911 owners as part of 50 years celebrations for the iconic car. An event I think we’ll attend again in the future.

That’s about it for now. By the time you get this we will have had the National Weekend at Gaydon so a follow-up will be in the next edition of A.T. Accompanying that will be a report on the annual pilgrimage to the ’Ring by some of our members.

Below is a list of what’s still on the horizon. It will be a busy finish to what has been a fun packed season so far. If you still fancy the Christmas do, give me a call.

Places may still be available.

That just leaves that old favourite. Yep you guessed it – Car of The Month. This time the honours go to Andy Tyldsley. Andy, along with his wife Debbie, have been active members for over four years and are part of the tapestry that makes our region what it is.

Starting with a Boxster before moving onto 911 ownership with a 996 Cab, 996 Turbo S ownership then ensued. But Andy is man who likes his Turbos.

Hence the acquisition of this lovely 1978 930 to keep the 996 Turbo S company.

Andy has put some TLC back into the mechanicals and at our recent show at Haigh Hall it really stood out. It’s easy to forget about the older Turbos, especially as most of them get tucked away, but Andy tries to use it a little but often. When it comes out it reminds us of why we fell in love with the marque.

Andy’s 930 Turbo is a real poster car!

Here’s what else we’ve got coming up in our action packed year. Please check our regional webpage for up to the minute information on events etc.

As I sign off please note my new email address: caymanlane73@gmail.com October 7th (Monday) Club Night at The Boatyard October (Date TBC) Run out to White Scar Caves and Wensleydale Cheese Factory November 4th (Monday) Club night with Slideshow of early Gmund factory as well as other pics with stories attached.

Probably no fireworks, sparklers and bonfire though due to health and safety!

November (Date TBC) Visit to Hartech, Bolton December 2nd (Monday) Club Night at The Boatyard with quiz.

Early Christmas presents to be had.

Andy Tyldsley’s 930 Turbo

December 21st (Saturday) Christmas Party at Inn on The Prom St Annes.

C&S cars at the concours (Steve’s burgundy 993 to the left)

Cheshire & Staffs RO Steve Taylor 07774 912 069 (mobile) steve.taylor@maquet.co.uk ARO Dave Watson 07889 804 598 (mobile) watson_david@btinternet.com Comms Dave Mercer davidmercer1972@o2.co.uk Meetings are held third Tuesday of every month 8pm at The Whipping Stocks, Stocks Lane, Over Peover, Knutsford, WA16 9EX. The weather was kind for the region’s annual Pride of Ownership Concours held at the July club meeting.

As usual this resulted in a very full car park of Porsches, ranging from 924s, 944s, a 968, a 928, Boxsters to a wide range of 911 models. Thank you to you all for supporting the evening and for your efforts in preparing your cars. Our marking system was kept to exterior condition, interior condition, and wheels and tyres. A weighting was then applied for mileage and member’s choice votes. This kept the results fair and representative, and I would hope that you all concurred with our worthy winners.

Picking up the 3rd place shield was Alf Dixon in his extremely clean Boxster. 2nd went to a rather surprised, but quite deserving Steve Hulme in his 993 C2S and the winner’s trophy went to Gary Ince in his stunning 911 Carrera RSR replica. Well done guys.Many others were very close – so better luck next year!

The North Wales run and BBQ were originally planned for July but ended up being rearranged for 11th August following feedback from members. Gary Ince and Barry Stenhouse did an excellent job in organising this fixture. It started at the Crown Pub in Pantymwyn with bacon sandwiches. Ten member

C&S out on the Welsh run & BBQ

C&S out on the Welsh run & BBQ

cars (a 968, a 928 and a selection of 911s) then headed for Ruthin and on to Lake Brynig. The Evo Triangle was next up with Barry Stenhouse leading the pack. The group stopped at Pentrefoalas for a break at which point Gary disappeared to prepare the BBQ. The second half of the run was fun but eventful with lots of braking and cursing and a few very near misses due to some very dubious Welsh driving standards (VW)! Luckily no damage was done and everyone reached Gary’s place in good time for the BBQ and to calm their nerves over some nice food, with a few glasses of wine (for the lady passengers).

Thanks to those who made it out on this run.

Your feedback has resulted in us organizing another road trip (per the details below). Let’s hope that the weather still holds in our favour.

We plan to have another drive out on the 29th September starting at the The Crown Inn again (Cilcain Road, Pantymwyn, CH7 5EH) with a bacon sandwich and a brew at £3 a head, followed by a run to Bala Lake then back to the pub for assorted sandwiches, chips, teas and coffee at £5.50 a head, later in the day. Please keep a watch out for details via email or the forum.

Given that we are in the 50th Anniversary year of the 911, most major events have had some form of tribute theme for our venerable bathtubs. Alongside many TIPEC members, I made it out onto the track at the Silverstone Classic in the 911x911 parade which ended up being 1,208x911, quite an achievement – even if there was rather a lot of waiting around in the holding areas in advance.

Barry Stenhouse also managed to get into the tribute line up (there’s a joke there somewhere) at the Oulton Park Gold Cup meeting, which hosted a similar honorary 911 parade. Talking of anniversaries, by the time this report is published we will also have had our forthcoming club anniversary event at Gaydon. Hope to see many of you there.

Holding area at Silverstone Classic for the 911x911 parade (photo by Dave W.)

Finally, I have circulated a number of emails advising of our plans to attend the 2014 Le Mans Classic.

We have around 10 people confirmed at the moment so if you plan on joining us, please shout ASAP as accommodation availability in the hotel we have booked not too far from the circuit is now extremely limited.

October 5th (Saturday) Aintree Track Day (Liverpool Motor Club) See Barry Stenhouse or Dave Watson for details.

October 15th (Tuesday) Club night at the Whipping Stocks from 8pm.

Feel free to attend earlier if you wish to eat.

Quiz night.

November 2nd (Saturday) Run out to Britcar/British GT Championship Endurance round at Donington Park.

November 15–17th (Friday–Sunday) NEC Classic Car Show.

November 19th (Tuesday) Club night at the Whipping Stocks from 8pm. Feel free to attend earlier if you wish to eat. Guest speaker to be confirmed.

December 17th (Tuesday) Club night at the Whipping Stocks from 8pm.

Christmas Meal and get-together.

South Yorkshire & North Notts.

RO Dave Warren 07952 065 543 (mobile) dave.warren1401gmail.com ARO Dean Lancashire 07860 198 627 (mobile) dean@tachart.com Meetings are held first Sunday of every month 5–5:30pm (meeting proper begins 7pm) at Ye Olde Bell Hotel, Barnby Moor, Retford, Notts, DN22 8QS October 4–6th (Friday–Sunday) WotY to the Northumberland Coast.

October 13th (Sunday) All day event at Specialist Cars of Malton, plenty of exotic motors on display and bacon butties. Meet at The Little Chef just after A1/A638 J38 at 10-00am.

May even get a run to the coast.

October 13th (Sunday) Club night at Ye Olde Bell Hotel. Please note this is put back a week as the WOTY conflicted. Meeting as usual starts at 7:30pm-ish.

Rest of the Year!

Check out our website for details: www.synd.org.uk

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East Midlands New RO & ARO wanted urgently!

Regional Co-ordinator Graham Waller graham.waller@wfhowes.co.uk Meetings are held third Tuesday of every month 7pm for food (meeting proper begins 8:00pm) at The Field Head Hotel, Markfield Lane, Markfield, Leicestershire LE67 9PS.

Central tipeccentral@outlook.com Joint RO Lindsay Brown 07768 442 050 (mobile) Joint RO Steve Jones 07775 581 044 (mobile) Joint RO Stuart Wakeman 07912 620 181 (mobile) Meetings are held second Monday of every month 7:30pm onwards at The Bull’s Head, Birmingham Rd, Shenstone, Litchfield WS14 0JR. www.vintageinn.co.uk/thebullsheadshenstone I write this report on returning from TIPEC’s 20th Anniversary Weekend’s National Event at Gaydon.

I would like to thank Jim Hearnden and his band of helpers for this superb event. I also attended the BBQ on the Saturday night which was again a lovely evening, it also gave me time to reacquaint with old friends and put faces to names from the ever busy forum. On the Sunday I helped out with the parking and I consider this to be one of the best jobs, as not only do you get to meet the drivers but also to see the varied and wonderful assortment of Porsches that come through the gate. This year the National Event almost brings to a close the years outings, apart from a couple of small local shows only The Classic and Sportscar show at the NEC in November remains.

Since the last report we have had Cars in the Park in Lichfield, a joint event with PCGB. This was, as always, well attended and the weather was very warm.

Our July club night was postponed for a week because of the event and was our first Pride of Ownership contest. This was very well attended with almost 30 cars and a lovely buffet spread put on by our hosts at The Bull’s Head. We gave out several prizes to some very proud owners.

August 11th saw us attend The Prescott Revival with our friends at The Marcos Owners Cub, they made us very welcome and even laid on a parade run up the hill for Porsches to celebrate the 911’s 50th anniversary.

August Bank Holiday Monday found us at The Pershore Plum Festival, a very relaxed event laid on to celebrate the plum crop, with a selection of fayre mostly made from or using plums.

South Central RO Pete Garrett 07804 030 695 (mobile) garrett-peter@sky.com Meetings are held from 9:45 am on the first Sunday of every month and from 19:30 on the fourth Monday of the month at The Red Lion, Evenley, Nr Brackley, Northants NN13 5SH

Anglia & North Essex RO wanted ARO Colin Clarke colin.r.clarke@live.co.uk 01284 706 247

There is a small annual event in Atherstone’s Market Square on September 15th, which is a charity event which we will attend. We are now beginning to arrange next years events, so if anyone has any preferences or ideas for some new shows or events please don’t be afraid to approach us, we don’t bite!

Meetings are held fourth Tuesday of each month from 7pm at The Bunbury Arms, Ixworth Road, Great Barton, Suffolk IP31 2NX. www.nextnorth.com/bunbury/findus.htm

October 14th (Monday) Club night at The Bull’s Head.

North London, Herts & South Essex

November 11th (Monday) Club night at The Bull’s Head.

November 15–17th (Friday–Sunday) Classic and Sportscar Show at the NEC. December 9th (Monday) Christmas Meal at The Bull’s Head.

December TBC A curry night on a Saturday evening, details to follow.

RO Vince Dallimore 07798 630 649 (mobile) NLHSE@tipec.net ARO Peter Musk 07734 769 953 (mobile) NLHSE@tipec.net Informal meetings are held twice monthly: First Sunday of every month from 10:30am at The Goat Inn, Vicarage Causeway, Hertford Heath, Herts SG13 7RT and last Monday of the month from 18:00pm at Ace Café London, Ace Corner, North Circular Road, Stonebridge, London NW10 7UD. Autumn is upon us, so we can now reflect on the glorious Summer and some enjoyable ‘driving to’ events in addition to our usual meetings at the Goat and the Ace Café. One such occasion was the Boxster Driving Event at the Porsche Experience Centre Silverstone attended by Peter Musk:

911 parking area at Gaydon for TIPEC’s anniversary weekend

“We arrived at 08:30 and enjoyed a full breakfast which was followed by a briefing and informative talk about the complex and our three hour event, which included 75 minutes of driving time.

Everyone was then allocated a professional instructor and two cars, a Boxster 2.7 Manual and a Boxster 3.4s PDK. The experience stretched both us and the cars on four of the tracks, which were the ‘Ice Hill’, the ‘Kick Plate’, the ‘Low Friction’ and the ‘Handling Circuit’. The instructor ensured we explored all the performance and handling available, plus the advantages of PSM, ABS, ABD, ASR ,EDC, PTV, PASM and Sport Plus. I must admit to now being a fan of the PDK Gearbox, especially in Sport mode with the optional Sports Exhaust fitted.

I cannot recommend the Experience Centre highly enough, there are various experiences available to suit all desires and pockets, the latest one being

the Evolution 911 Experience where you get to drive a 911 Carrera (G Series), a 911 Carrera (993) and a new 911 Carrera S (991). We also watched practice for the Silverstone Classic from the roof of the Centre, which is adjacent to the Hangar Strait.”

We returned to IWM Duxford on Sunday 28th July for the annual Merlins and Motors event. Unfortunately this clashed with the Silverstone Classic which dented our numbers somewhat. The weather was kind and there was an excellent turnout of classic cars on display. We were given a great club spot, with a burger stand and the main air display building nearby. The flying display this year was fantastic with four Spitfires on ground display and in the air for a total of six air displays, with four solos and two duos flying the classic fighters over the airfield. The museum offers much and the car club entry is discounted against normal visitors’ entry fee, so good value, a full day out!

Last weekend was the TIPEC 20th anniversary show.

Helen and I travelled up for the Saturday Cotswolds run and evening BBQ. Some of you will have noted from the forum that my 928S4 is with Porsche Mid Sussex for head gasket repairs (ouch!), but Peter Rowe was kind enough to arrange a courtesy car for the TIPEC weekend. The 63 plate Boxster S PDK had 104 miles on the clock on collection and rather more when I returned it on Monday! The Lime Gold paintwork certainly

attracted plenty of attention, Stig was reluctant to give it back! I can echo Peter’s comments on the PDK gearbox, a great piece of engineering! The weekend was great fun and thanks go to Sean, Jim, Paul et al for all their efforts to put on two days of entertainment!

Last Sunday saw our monthly pilgrimage to the Goat, the weather was again sunny and attracted a big turnout of machines old and new, custom and classic.

Our next event will be at The Goat on Sunday 6th October, preceded by the annual 928 meeting at the Barley Mow, Tilford, when I hope to be showing of my engine bay with newly painted Inlet manifold, cam covers and torsion bar!

October 5th (Saturday) 928 meeting at the Barley Mow, Tilford, Surrey October 6th (Sunday) Morning meeting at The Goat October 28th (Monday) Club night at The ACE Cafe November 3rd (Sunday) Morning meeting at The Goat November 25th (Monday) Club night at The ACE Cafe

South East London & North Kent RO Jim Hearnden 01634 869 658 07930 353 232 (mobile) tr7v8@phaetonconsulting.co.uk ARO Paul Greer 07799 412 870 (mobile) prgreer@blueyonder.co.uk Meetings are held first Friday of every month 7:30pm at The Harrow, Maidstone Road, Hadlow TN11 0HP. Tel 01732 850 386 (Google: http://g.co/maps/x7hck) The new location is pretty easy to get to, it is about 15-20 minutes from J4 M20 and has a massive car park as well as being large inside – the landlady has given us our own area. This one is a couple of miles closer to the motorway so even easier to get to.

Partners are more than welcome and it is not all car chat. The venue does great, reasonably priced food so if you do not want to cook, you can have a meal before the meeting starts. More and more members are doing that now.

We now have 60 people on the SELNK list and a lot of these Paul & I have never met. It would be great to see some of you in the forthcoming few months.

I have two or three members that I don’t have email addresses for. If you have an email address and do not see mails from me, then please send me a mail to tr7v8@phaetonconsulting.co.uk and I’ll add you to the list. That also applies to people in adjacent areas who would like a copy of our calendar. Please also ensure that you update address, car and email details when you renew.

Boxsters for the Silverstone day

The Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone

The Porsche Experience Centre’s fleet

August Club meeting Pretty good turnout, we are certainly gaining members, I think we average two new members a month at a meeting. Lots of discussion on Gaydon and a decision to cancel the September meeting as it is the weekend of the TIPEC show and tour of the Cotswolds.

Detailing Day at Sean’s The weather smiled on this one, unlike the last where it poured down. On arrival at around 10, there were teas, coffees an bacon rolls. Sean had found Mike, a local dent removal specialist, and he set to working on Martins newly acquired 996. Apparently his first ‘victim’ of the day was Sean’s Speedster. Fancy working on that with Sean giving you the evil eye as you approach it with a hammer! Paul and Christopher set to with the pressure washer and snowfoam attachment on Sue’s Boxster. Now the amazing thing was this looked very clean, yet you could see the snowfoam lift the grime from the paint and slough it off. After it had been hosed off and then dried it was visibly cleaner and brighter. Various other lotions and potions were applied, with Sue taking pictures and notes as each process took place. We had taken Becky’s MX5 along for the dent man’s attention and he made the comment that there were enough dents on it that he could spend all day on it! This maybe the fact that it is 25 years old. I asked him to do bonnet

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The Stig at Gaydon

SELNK members relaxing at Gaydon

and boot which he did. There was a particularly evil dent on the bonnet which I thought may be beyond his paintless techniques. But after 20 minutes or so he had reduced it to the point where it was barely visible, good going on what turned out to be an aluminium panel. Various other dents fell victims to his hammers and dollies. When he’d finished I was £100 lighter but he’d added considerable value to the car. The Boxster he removed a dent in the door and a couple in the bootlid. Lesson learned here, be careful what you put in the boot and then slam it, although I’m pretty sure it wasn’t whilst in my ownership.

Various other cars got the snowfoam treatment including the MX5. A particularly bad bit of paintwork on here was also attacked with the polishing machine with excellent results. Grant bought along another non-Porsche, his new to him Volvo XC90 which had what looked like overspray on one of the doors.

Sean worked at that for a short while and made it disappear. All in all a good day, very useful and thanks to Sean, Paul and Christopher for their efforts.

Dungeness Fish & Chip run This used to be a regular on the SELNK calendar but had dropped off for the last few years. We met at 10:00 at Maidstone Services for the compulsory wake-up coffees and teas. Then left at 10:30. I’d done a very basic route but not the most direct one, this route took us through some lovely villages and across country. After around 70 minutes of driving we arrived at a warm and sunny Dungeness, even if it was blowing like mad! The Britannia pub has a massive car park and I had booked 25 places inside for lunch. The fish & chips here is superb and I think everyone enjoyed what they ate. After food quite a few decided that a walk on the beach would assist the lunch down and after that decided that a cuppa would be in order. We all split off to go home at around 3:30–4 o’clock.

September club meeting Club meeting was cancelled due to the closeness of the annual show.

Dan Englidow’s Chesil 356 at the Capel Classic

TIPEC Weekend This will be covered elsewhere, but thanks to everyone from SELNK for supporting this. We were by far one of the most prolific regions together with the Scottish guys. Everyone had a great party on Saturday night, dancing to a live band and great BBQ food, and the show went off very well on Sunday with around 700 Porsches there. As some will know I was organising Sunday’s event but I couldn’t have done it without others’ assistance. Thanks to Lindsay Brown, Paul and Christopher Greer’s help. Sean’s input and experience was invaluable as well.

South East

October 5th (Saturday) Biddenden Vineyards Wine Tour & Tasting

For those of you who haven’t made it along to a monthly meet yet, we always welcome new members and prospective members, come and see if you like us. We're a friendly bunch no matter what model of Porker you own or desire and you will be guaranteed to receive a hearty welcome and make some new friends. You also have the opportunity of winning our own regional lotto with all SE Region members going into the hat each month, but you have to be at the meeting to win if your name is drawn out.

October 19th (Saturday) Porsche Centre open day and car inspection December 7th (Saturday) Christmas Dinner Please contact Jim ASAP if you are attending.

Thames Valley Joint RO Jason Gibson 07958 459 725 (mobile) tipec@blueyonder.co.uk Joint RO Paul Mabley flyingpig71@hotmail.com Joint RO Nick Ramsay tipec1@witzendcs.co.uk Meetings are held first Tuesday of every month 7:00pm at The Novello, Bath Rd, Littlewick Green, Maidenhead, SL6 3RX.

RO Derek Flanagan 01342 717 754 07767 254 820 (mobile) derek.flanagan@btconnect.com Meetings are held second Wednesday of every month 8pm at The Bolney Stage, London Road, Bolney RH17 5RL, just off the A23, 10 miles south of Crawley.

The monthly meetings in the summer have been well attended – around 30 each month, with some great Porsches in the car park. In August Peter Rowe brought along the new facelifted Panamera sales demo car.

This summer has been ideal car show weather – Der Wettergot meint es gut mit uns (the weather god is well disposed towards us) and we had a great collection of members’ Porsches at the Capel Classic Car & Bike Show in August, including Lawrence Peacock’s gleaming white 968 Club Sport and Dan Engledow’s blue Chesil replica 356 Cabriolet.

James Garrard brought his 911 AND his newly acquired 924 (formerly John Wallin’s) and we were treated to a great line up of 914s including the yellow 914 Silverstone Classic Concours winner and a very special scary trike!

A Capel attraction – longer and wider than a 968!

Steve Perrin’s 996 Targa at Silverstone

We also had a memorable day at the Silverstone Classic and the 50th Anniversary event at Goodwood and both circuit parades had a fantastic party atmosphere – see separate reports in this issue.

Annual Boating 11 August Once again members left their cars for the day and travelled at 5 mph on the water. We started at Farncombe boat house near Guildford on the River Wey when it rained very lightly as we cast off, but within two minutes the rain stopped and it became a perfect day that everyone enjoyed. This truly delightful river is one of Surrey’s best kept secrets, it offers the chance to experience the lovely county of Surrey from a very different angle. Margaret Butler did her usual walking session between two of the locks, and despite misjudging the distance between them, she still won the race!

Members News Last month I reported that John Wallin had his 924 for a record 17 years, well fellow SE Region member Steve Haylor has challenged this as he has owned his 944 Turbo for over 18 years, however, unlike John’s 924, it’s not been used continuously and has been in storage for a few years – so not sure if that counts!

Sat 28th September TIPEC Technical workshop We are delighted that Porsche Centre Mid Sussex have opened their workshop for us again to get our cars up on the ramps to check and hopefully admire the underside of the cars and work with the Porsche technicians to identify any issues or potential problems.

October 9th (Wednesday) SE Region Meeting at The Bolney Stage November 13th (Wednesday) SE Region meeting at The Bolney Stage December 11th (Wednesday) Christmas dinner at The Bolney Stage

Southern Region’s site at Wilton House for the Supercar day

Wessex RO Pete Blackler 07779 203 278 (mobile) peter_blackler@sky.com Meetings are held third Thursday of every month from 8:15pm at The Bucks Head, Meonstoke, Hampshire SO32 3NA. www.thebuckshead.co.uk The Bucks Head is just off the A32. Meonstoke lies just North of Fareham, only 15 mins from the M3.

Southern RO Andy Fenwick 07767 201 220 andy.fenwick@tipec.net ARO Jim Tarrant 0120 260 1886 jim.tarrant@hotblack944.fsnet.co.uk Meetings are held first Tuesday of every month from 7:30pm at The Angel, 188 Ringwood Rd, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9AP Wilton House Supercar Day We attended the annual Wilton House Supercar Day on Sunday August 4th. With a dozen cars we met up at Ringwood for the drive out to Wilton House. This year we had booked a large display area and on arrival duly set about erecting the club gazebo and then parking our cars in a clock formation around it. I think the organisers must have taken a shine to us as we were given a prime site in front of the connecting bridge to the main lawns. With a constant flow of people coming to talk to us about the club and discussing all things Porsche, it was an amazing day of supercars old and new – from the exotic to wonderful vehicles of yesteryear. Special thanks to Steve Masterman for organizing the site and taking care of all the booking.

Jas receiving his award for ‘best car’ at Anderwood

Anderwood BBQ On August 11th we ran our BBQ at Anderwood in the New Forest, and again this year a huge success helped by wonderful weather. We had over 30 cars in attendance and with a large number people to keep our two master chefs Steve & Jim very busy feeding them from the grill.

Great to see such a wonderful turn out especially Paul, Jason and the crew from the Thames Valley region and good to see our friends from R26 of the PCGB. Money raised from the event enabled us to make a donation to the Cancer Research UK – this was made possible from proceeds from the BBQ and the raffle, to which we thank our sponsors. A very special mention to Jon Mitchell (jmgarage) who provided ingredients for the BBQ grill.

During the BBQ we ran a best car of the day contest which was open to visiting non TIPEC cars. The winner was Jas, seen here receiving his trophy from Steve Masterman. A great day with good food and terrific company – a good time was had by all, even Alan’s dog!

Please visit our website at www.tipec.net/region_southern.php as we are continuously updating our events page. Members will also receive email notifications of upcoming items.

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South West & South Wales RO Sue Simmons 07530 312 700 (mobile) sue.simmons1@gmail.com ARO Mick Simmons 07793 905 918 (mobile) mjs019@gmail.com Meetings are held first Tuesday of every month 7:45pm at The Fox, Easter Compton, BS35 5RA, one mile West of M5 J17 (Cribbs Causeway).

This has been a good summer for our region – not just because of the wonderful weather here in the West Country, but because of the support that lots of members have shown in getting together and enjoying some events that we’ve not been to before.

We’ve been to The Moving Motor Show which was the opening day of Goodwood Festival of Speed – courtesy of free tickets from The Daily Telegraph – so thanks to them. We went to Silverstone Classic, where we had a bijou TIPEC area but enjoyed the show, the racing, and the parade of 911s that made up the attempt to get 911 911s – and they beat it!

One of my favourite days out was to Sherbourne Castle’s Classics At The Castle – a real family day out with the gardens and Craft Fair as well as some amazing vehicles from the early 20th Century parade up to a 2013 Aventador Coupe!

We went to Castle Combe on August Bank Holiday Monday (After a hearty breakfast at The Compass) and saw Stuart Ings get a great result in his No 23 car.

And of course most recently we went to TIPEC’S 20th Anniversary Porsche Show at Gaydon, perhaps making the best of the last fine weather of the summer.

Each month has seen amazing numbers of members and their cars turning up at The Fox at Easter Compton – we may have to start looking for somewhere bigger but it has to be in the M5/M4 interchange area because of the various places our membership stretches to.

I am delighted to be welcoming so many new members to our region too – from as far away as Saltash and over the bridge in Wales. Mick and I are off to the Porsche dealership in Cardiff to try and negotiate an equivalent deal for our Welsh members to the one we enjoy at the dealership at Cribbs – thanks to all the guys there that continue to support and help us and have become an integral part of our group – very much appreciated and welcomed!

So whats happening next? By the time you read this we will have had a mid-September weekend in Wales and October is time for the Prescott Autumn Classic – highly recommended by me although I will be on holiday and miss it this year.

South West & South Wales Region’s monthly meet at The Fox

We are also starting to plan a trip to the Le Mans Classic in July next year so if you want to register your possible interest in joining that trip please email our volunteer organisers Tony and Julie on tony.healey@paranor.co.uk or Jahealey@paranor.co.uk That’s it from me but see you all soon!

October 5–6th (Saturday–Sunday) Prescott Autumn Classic November 16th (Saturday) Trip to NEC Classic Car Show (Contact Sue urgently for discounted tickets) December 15th (Sunday) TIPEC Bristol Xmas Lunch, Alveston House Hotel Names and numbers being taken now!

Any comments or questions welcome – sue.simmons1@gmail.com or call on 07530 312 700.

Cornwall & Devon RO & ARO wanted!

Meetings are held third Sunday of every month 12:00–2:30pm at The Winds of Change, South Petherwin, Near Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 7LP. RO and ARO required, to host monthly meetings at a local pub/hotel with support from the members and the committee and to attend/organise local events.

November is the NEC Classic Car Show – let me know if you want to join in, and of course December means the Regional Christmas Lunch and we already have 45 people but spaces are still available. For any of these please get in touch with me asap if you want to be included.

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1987 Porsche 944 Lux

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Mileage 108000 Beautiful cream leather club sport interior Half stainless exhaust Carrera S wheels New tyres Taxed and MOTed

Due to the purchase of a Boxster my faithful 944 has to go, it comes with original jack, towing eye etc plus roof bag and cargo net.

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Featured in Total 911, issue 92. The car has just been fully serviced by Porsche (West Byfleet) which included a full brake overhaul and boost increase from 0.8 Bar to 1.2 Bar. She runs like a dream, Mot until July 2014, 6 Months Tax. Priced for a quick sale pending house move. £37,995.00 or sensible offers only Please call James on 07807 816 347 or email jamesgarrard@hotmail.co.uk

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If you look to the bottom-left of the homepage, you will find a link to TIPEC’s online discussion forum. This is the place to trade banter with fellow club members on a day-to-day basis, ask questions and share knowledge, up and down the UK (and worldwide!)

Forum: Discussion Area; Porsche Show - Gaydon - Thanks Martin & Kim 6853: Just wanted to post a big thank you to all those involved in organising the Gaydon Weekend. We had great time over the two days and evenings, met some genuinely nice people, enjoyed good weather and a good venue. Thanks to all for making Kim's birthday a day to remember even if she did go on to win the raffle!

Thanks again and looking forward to the next one …

EL Gordo: Yup the day was OK. acambra: Just a big THANKYOU to the Chairman and all the members who worked to put on a great weekend at the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon.

As a new member (joined 1st September!) both my son, Ben, and I were made to feel very welcome by all whom we met (which included Clive who used to own my car!) and we enjoyed every minute of the event – especially having the opportunity to enjoy a few laps around the Jaguar/Land Rover ‘emissions’ test track – pity we were restricted to just 70mph.

Was great driving home and enjoying fellow enthusiasts waving as they passed! Well Gmund qs 30/6/08 16:49 Page 1 done all – look forward to seeing you all again in the future.

tr7v8: Thanks. Now sitting at home absolutely knackered! I was on the mic all day. Great day, lots of Porsches – around 700 but we lost count! Weather smiled although it got iffy once or twice. Thanks from Sean & I to all who came and made it what it was.

Around £780 or so raised for Marie Curie Cancer charity, still awaiting final numbers, from the F1 Simulator. Thanks to OPC Solihull, Porscheshop & Meguiar’s for the raffle prizes.

The traders had a good day, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.

shone all day. Thanks to all who helped put this together for us, we do appreciate your efforts

sam: Yes, thanks all for making a great day for us, the hard work really paid off, and is valued! Great to meet up with with so many old friends, and lots of new ones too.

Sean Smallman: A big thank you from me to Jim for organising the Show. A big enough task without having my hawkish interventions from the sidelines. Paul and Christopher Greer helped us set up on Saturday and were on site again early Sunday morning having just a few hours sleep from attending the BBQ. Lindsay and the volunteers did a great job. The rows of Porsches were neat and tidy and we banked £2500 cash, plus credit cards from sales in the Club Office. Finally thanks to all those that turned up over the weekend and made all the hard work worthwhile.

Paul Mabley: Great day and a good evening too. Nice to be a part of this club for the people as Martin said.

Nick: Works fine for me, but I probably would not try to charge a flat battery that way. Can’t be too bad if Porsche sell their own version of a cigar lighter trickle charger. lindsayhbrown: Another big thanks to Jim and all his helpers for all their hard work leading up to and during the weekend.

I thoroughly enjoyed both the Saturday BBQ and Sundays main event. grbspeedster: A big success all round.

Cotswold run was excellent , BBQ and band in the evening was superb and the sun nearly

crazeehound: Big round of applause to all the organisers and everyone who worked so hard to make it so brilliant! Our first Porsche Show and we had a great day, we went round the test track twice, met up with some great people, had a diagnostic done by the super friendly and very helpful guys. Hope everyone else had a great day and safe journey home.

phil21turbo: Just wanted to say big thanks.

Was my first official meet in the 944t and was good to talk with like minded people.

Was impressed with the whole setup! Not very good with remembering names but in particular Chas & Clive. Love Chas’ Wortec exhaust (want one) and thanks to Clive for the Donington tip!

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